Hi,I try to sell my car online and couple of weeks ago a guy named"Jack Brown"send me an email that his client wants to buy it. Take a look this is a copy of e mail.
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your mail.Am an auto broker here in Seattle Wa.Its my client who is purchasing your vehicle,my services will be paid for by my client on completion of the sale.I need to have your information for payment purposes.Please advice.
Jack.
206-333-1714

Chris Kowalski <akkow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Hi Jack ,before I recive check can I have some information about company you represent .
Than you Chris

Hello ,
Good news,I have spoken to my client and he has instructed me to inform
you that payment will get to you in a cashier cheque of $5,500 which is
a refund payment of a cancelled order earlier made by my client.
Due to company policy this check has to be made out in this amount to you, because company policy only allows a refund payment on one cashier cheque, so you are required to deduct cost of your car $2,500 when payment gets to you and refund balance $3,000 to my clients shippers via western union money transfer for them to be able to offset shipping charges .
After payment has reached you and balance sent back to him, our agent
will come for pick-up and drive to a prepaid shipper to be
shipped to my customer,while title papers and other necessary documents
will be either collected from you at the point of pick-up or sent via
fedex courier to my customer.
Confirm this and provide
1)Name (cheque will be made payable to),
2)Address ( the check will be delivered to) and Phone number for check
payment to be delivered to you via registered mail.
Thanks,
Jack.

NB.
Please stop all correspondence with any intending buyer,as the car should be considered sold.

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i would never had responded to email from the same number due to the strange wording but when i did a quick search i came across your posting as well....

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Name: Robert Weeks
Email: robeekert@yahoo.comPhone(Day): 206-333-1714
Phone(Evening):
Comment: Dear Seller, I am mailing you in reference to your car which I saw on the net for sale.As a follow up I will like you to furnish me with the following 1)condition 2)ownership 3)last offer, and could you kindly send me a picture so that i can get more familar with what I am about to buy from you. Moreso I will also like to know the terms and condition of payment. I will stop here till i read from you soon. Regards, Robert Weeks 206-333-1714 robeekert@yahoo.com-------------------------------

I am mailing you in reference to your car which I saw on the net for sale.As a follow up I will like you to furnish me with the following
1)condition
2)ownership
3)last offer, and could you kindly send me a picture so that
i can get more familar with what I am about to buy from you.

Moreso I will also like to know the terms and condition of
payment. I will stop here till i read from you soon.

I received the same e-mail, word-for-word, as icywinds4 posted. At first I didn't think anything of it so I answered his questions.

I got the following reply. As soon as he mentioned a 3rd party client and I realized a different area code I knew this was all wrong. Jackass.

Hello DXXX,

Thanks for your mail.I forwarded the pics you sent to me to my client how said the pics is great.my client said he will send his shipping agent to come for inspection of the car so he will call you for inspection.What is your frim price?My client said the payment is go to be credit card to my Bank or Bank Draft.

I reported this dude to the website I had posted my add on and here's their reply. What a jerk this guy is.

[i]Thank you for contacting Kijiji Canada Community Support.

We believe this email address is the source of potentially fraudulent
activities or is breaking one or more Kijiji policies. As such we have blocked
it from the Kijiji community.
[/i]
Again thanks for taking the time to send this to our attention.

Hi folks, I'm a baiter who lurks out here. Just a head's up, the "206" numbers you trace to Seattle are not cell phones, they are free "K7" accounts. Take 2 minutes to get one, it is a free voice mail and fax recieving services.

Hi folks, I'm a baiter who lurks out here. Just a head's up, the "206" numbers you trace to Seattle are not cell phones, they are free "K7" accounts. Take 2 minutes to get one, it is a free voice mail and fax recieving services.

"Area code 206 is a telephone dialing code in Washington for Seattle, Mercer Island and the islands of Bainbridge and Vashon, and portions of the Seattle metro area from Des Moines to Woodway.

At inception, area code 206 served all of Washington state. In 1957, Eastern Washington was split as area code 509.

In 1995, 206 was split again, limited to the Seattle metro and Puget Sound area, with the remainder of Western Washington assigned area code 360. Then in 1997, 206 was again split, limited to its current territory; the Eastside and northern suburbs assigned area code 425 and the southern suburbs and Tacoma metro area to area code 253.

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